Monday, December 16, 2013

"For
this same lord, I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with
this and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow
him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So, again, good night. I must
be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. One word
more, good lady."

a.Hamlet about his father

b.Hamlet about Polonius

c.Hamlet to himself

d.Hamlet to Gertrude

e.Hamlet to Gertrude about Polonius

"O,
what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's,
eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of
fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite
down!"

a.Ophelia to herself

b.Laertes to Ophelia

c.Polonius to Claudius

d.Hamlet to Horatio

e.Hamlet to himself

"What
is your cause of distemper? you do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty,
if you deny your griefs to your friend."

a.Claudius to Hamlet

b.Horatio to Hamlet

c.Rosencrantz to Hamlet

d.Hamlet to Laertes

e.Guildenstern to Hamlet

“This
above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

a.Ghost to Hamlet

b.Claudius to
Hamlet

c.Hamlet to
Horatio

d.Laertes to
Ophelia

e.Polonius to
Laertes

“Though
this be madness, yet there is method in't.”

a.Claudius about Hamlet

b.Gertrude about Hamlet

c.Gertrude about Ophelia

d.Polonius about Hamlet

e.Laertes about Ophelia

“There
are more things in Heaven and Earth, ____________, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.”

“What
a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In
form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In
apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

a.Claudius to himself.

b.Hamlet to himself.

c.Laertes about his father.

d.Gertrude to herself

e.Laertes to Ophelia

“I
loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of
love, make up my sum.”

a.Hamlet to Claudius

b.Hamlet to Laertes

c.Hamlet to Gertrude

d.Hamlet to Horatio

e.Hamlet to all of the above

“I
must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

a.Hamlet to himself

b.Hamlet to Gertrude

c.Hamlet to Ophelia

d.Hamlet to Horation

e.Laertes to Claudius

“I
am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a
handsaw.”

a.Hamlet to Polonius

b.Ophelia to Polonius

c.Hamlet to Ophelia

d.Hamlet to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz

e.Hamlet to Gertrude

“To
be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

a.Claudius to himself.

b.Polonius to Ophelia

c.Polonius to Laertes

d.Hamlet to Polonius

e.Hamlet to Horatio

“Something
is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

a.Hamlet

b.Horatio

c.Polonius

d.Marcellus

e.Rosencrantz

“The rest, is silence.”

a.Gertrude

b.Claudius

c.King Hamlet

d.Hamlet

e.Horatio

Is
this quote correct? “That one may smile, and smile, and be a friend. ”

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Now it's a short week - and before you know it, you will be on break for the holidays.

HOWEVER, we all need to buckle up and focus these remaining days.

Due to the snow day, I propose the following:

Tomorrow/Thursday, instead of the scheduled test, we will have an IN-CLASS write.
In essence, this is will be PART III the 3 Word Essay. (See previous posts for more links.)

Part III. "Words, Words, Words" Essay: Select 3 significant words from Hamlet - explain their connection (and their significance).Here's a sampling of words that Shakespeare invented.What will your three words be? How are they connected or related? Have any of the words changed in meaning from Shakespeare's time to today?

And it is by such means that Yeats's work does what the necessary poetry always does, which is to touch the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic nature of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed. The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry's power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry's credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable, in so far as they, too, are an earnest of our veritable human being.

Homework:

HWK:Friday - Read to page 62.For Monday - Finish the book - page 72.Review Heart of Darkness on Monday.In-Class Write on Tuesday - I will have a couple passages with questions.Wednesday - ARS POETICA - a long poem about poetry.This month/this year/ this life, what have you learned about poetry?Does poetry matter? Thursday/Friday Exam Review